{"id":222460,"date":"2026-02-01T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mariental-residents-petition-mayor-over-municipality\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:03:29","slug":"namibia-mariental-residents-petition-mayor-over-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mariental-residents-petition-mayor-over-municipality\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mariental Residents Petition Mayor Over Municipality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The Mariental Residents Association, supported by local residents, handed a petition to town mayor Ethel Isaacks, voicing dissatisfaction with the town&#8217;s municipality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In the petition, handed over on Wednesday, the association objects to the planned construction of new municipal offices estimated to cost N$80 million, arguing that the funds would be better used for community development projects that directly benefit residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The petition also raises concerns about the relocation of residents&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290513.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mariental Residents Association, supported by local residents, handed a petition to town mayor Ethel Isaacks, voicing dissatisfaction with the town&#8217;s municipality. In the petition, handed over on Wednesday, the association objects to the planned construction of new municipal offices estimated to cost N$80 million, arguing that the funds would be better used for community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,23797,7625,22888,4706,724,257,5653,4288,254],"class_list":["post-222460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mariental","tag-mayor","tag-municipality","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-petition","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}